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What is a historian
People who study written words to learn about ancient people
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What is the Stone age
This is broken into two different ages or periods of time
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What is hunter-gatherer
People who have to hunt animals to eat or gather things like fruit, nut, and berries.
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What is domesticate
Being able to tame animals and plants for human use
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What is a timeline
We keep track of time using this linear tool.
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What is an archaeologist
hunt for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might once have been
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What is neolithic
This means word means 'new stone'
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What is nomad
People always on the move who regularly are going from place to place.
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What is agriculture
The ability to use plants to their benefit, growing large fields. Allowed people to settle down in one place.
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What is AD or Ce (After Death or Common Era)
The time after Jesus' death is called this.
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What is an anthropologist
Focus on the study of human society. They study how humans developed and how they related to one another
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What is paleolithic
This word means 'old stone'
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What is fire
Paleolithic people's life-changing discovery
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What are mud-brick huts
The dwellings that neolithic people used.
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What is BC or BCE (Before Christ or Before Common Era)
The time before Jesus' death is called this.
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What is an artifact
These are weapons, tools, and other things made by humans dug up to be studied
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What is ice age
These are long periods of extreme cold, the last one began about 100,000 BC
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What is a cave or skin huts
This was a person's dwelling during this time.
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What is stone tools
These were now sharper more finished products, made it easier to do everyday things
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What is prehistory
The term that we use to describe before people started to write down information
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What is a fossil
These are traces of plants and/or animals that have been preserved in rock.
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What is technology
This helps define the periods of time like stone age, bronze age, iron age, etc.
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What is tribal society, the elders typically made all the important decisions
This was the style of governance that they had.
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What is specialization
People began to practice this method, the development of different kinds of jobs. From this people began to construct other skills like pottery or weaving, becomeing craftspeople.
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What is circa (abbreviated c.)
This term is used to describe about when dating events.
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